Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-02
GENERAL NEWS.

William Aimison, the president, and
/ Charles GameWeu, the second vice prssi-
dent, of the International Typographical
union, have come to Chicago for the pur-
/ pose Of investigating the printers strike.
/ Tie strikers assert that the aim of the yisi-
tors is 20 aid the local union and not 20 act
"a arbitrators, and MIR. Andrew McNally
says that the association Of employers VIII
not treat with them at all.
The work Of laying the cable road on Ran
dolph street between Dearborn and La Sale
streets, Chicago, was begun Thursday.
Representatives Of the National Fedora
ton of Miners and of the Knights of Labor
! who have been in joint session at Colum-
bus, Ohio, advise the holding of national
convention Of the representative Of both
organizations.
Fabulous reports keep coming in Of the
discovery Of a wonderfully rich gold ledge in
yielded 100000 to the ton These stories
may be true, but the chances are a thousand
70 one that they ere not.
Mr.. Sparks management Of the land
office was very unpopular in the west, and
II Is not surprising to learn that there was a
public celebration at Mandan, Dakota, when
the news of his resignation was received
there.
The National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union convention at Nashville added a
bylaw to the constitution of the convention
to the effect that no state union shall bound
by any principle espOused or plan devised
by the national organization, except that all
states must subscribe to the total abstinence
pledge and the constitution of the national
union.
While Mr.. Parnell's lieutenants are fight
ing vigorously their chief is resting quietly
at Hastings. He writes that acting upon
the advice Of his doctors he will not speak
during the parliamentary recess.
The annual report of the second assistant
postmaster general shows that the cost of
the service for the year was S2S, SO6, sos.
There was an increase over the preceding
year of 5O5, 100000 in the number of pieces
of mail handled by the postal clerks. It is
urged that the compensation of railroads
for carrying the mails should be made to
depend upon the amount of space occupied
instead of upon the weight of the matter.
The Wisconsin Veterans home recently
established at Waupaca is now ready for the
reception of inmates.
A review of the fisheries business for the
last year at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
shows that seventeen vessels have been lost
with ~ men, sixty of whom leave widows
and fatheTl6ss children.
A correspondent at Boston sends some in
teresting figures which show to what an
enormous extent eastern capitalists are loan
ing money on real estate in the west. 1t is
computed that at least 81 80 900 IS sent west
every mouth from Boston for investment in
farm and city mortgages, while the savings
banks and insurance companies of some OF
the New England states have enormous
sums placed IN the same sort Of securities. |
So far the business has been carried on with
astcnishingly small losses.
During the season that has Just closed the /
saw mills at Winona, Minnesota have cut |
e6,OO00O0 feet of lumber, 23sOOO,OO0 laths, !
56,OOO,OOO shingles.
The Canadian schooner Norwood wer (
ashore on Grand island, Michigan, Sunday |
morning. and was completely wrecked. The |
members OF the crew were all saved.
Wheat receipts at Minneapolis last week |
aggr- gated !, 65l, 600 bushels and the product /
Of the hour-mills amounted to about 24OOO |
barrels per day.
The firm of Il. D. Shepard s Co. have de- /
cided to withdraw from the IypOthetas and 1
10 accede to the union demand for nine i
hours pay for nine hours work. Their /
action Will have no effect upon the other /
firms that are members Of the association, |
and the strike shows no signs Of abatement /
A msn named Clancy and his wife were
burned to death IN their dwelling at i
VANCOUVER, Washington territory, Monday. /
Clancy was an old man who had Just retired /
from a thirty years service in the United i
States army, and his wife lost her life IN /
to save him from the flames.
A negro named Bigus was taken from the
jail at Frederick, Maryland, and hanged to
the limb of a Tree. The man was charged i
with ASSEMBLING an aged white woman, but
he died protesting his innocence and ac6us-
ing another negro of the crime.
A Tory newspaper published at Dublin pre-
1lcts that BalfOur, secretary of Ireland, viii
be the government leader in the house of
at the next session of parliament.
Owners of propert y adjacent to the market
place at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where 1t Is
proposed TO locate a new city hail, have
brought an injunction suit to prevent the
erection Of the building, for which an ap-
preparation of S60,OCO has been made.